Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
@diffractiongrating.bsky.social
I am Iridescent on Twitter but some random took that here.
François Mitterrand retire bitch.
Paper straw enthusiast. (they/them) 🏳️🌈
François Mitterrand retire bitch.
Paper straw enthusiast. (they/them) 🏳️🌈
Pinned
Another day volunteering at the UCL museum. Everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck Jeremy Bentham's corpse. Buddy, they won't even let me fuck it.
The broadly anonymous publicly listed company with a CEO who isn't an owner/founder knows its employees obviously have no personal loyalty to them and if they don't treat them okay ish they will go work at one of their nearly identical competitors. This is not true of the NGO industrial complex.
I've had a boss who got drunk on the job, hit on other coworkers, tried to organize an orgy, and admitted to war crimes
he was an organizer for the Obama campaign
that does not happen at the company that makes business for the business store, where I work now
he was an organizer for the Obama campaign
that does not happen at the company that makes business for the business store, where I work now
December 7, 2025 at 5:25 AM
The broadly anonymous publicly listed company with a CEO who isn't an owner/founder knows its employees obviously have no personal loyalty to them and if they don't treat them okay ish they will go work at one of their nearly identical competitors. This is not true of the NGO industrial complex.
"average person commits 3 heresies a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person commits 0 heresies per year. American Evangelical Georg, who lives in cave & commits over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
She compares the boat strikes to Jesus breaking the sabbath to heal someone.
December 7, 2025 at 4:28 AM
"average person commits 3 heresies a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person commits 0 heresies per year. American Evangelical Georg, who lives in cave & commits over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
I gave up on googling "gifts for fathers" and looked at this website instead and I have actually found an ideal gift for fathers. If anyone else is in this position please take this offering.
December 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I gave up on googling "gifts for fathers" and looked at this website instead and I have actually found an ideal gift for fathers. If anyone else is in this position please take this offering.
There are a bunch of people sitting in the Canva office at 7 pm on a Friday watching a man give a presentation in front of a slide that says "be social". Is this hell?
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
There are a bunch of people sitting in the Canva office at 7 pm on a Friday watching a man give a presentation in front of a slide that says "be social". Is this hell?
Having recently seen Blackmail and several other early Hitchcock movies I saw this. If you can get over the narrator having a very annoying voice and frankly poor diction it makes some interesting points by showing parallel clips of different movies but it's quite My First Film Studies Project.
December 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Having recently seen Blackmail and several other early Hitchcock movies I saw this. If you can get over the narrator having a very annoying voice and frankly poor diction it makes some interesting points by showing parallel clips of different movies but it's quite My First Film Studies Project.
There are two things I want from a messaging app: to send messages and to be notified when I receive messages. Somehow most if not all of them fail at this.
December 5, 2025 at 4:18 AM
There are two things I want from a messaging app: to send messages and to be notified when I receive messages. Somehow most if not all of them fail at this.
Do the people who stack the office dishwasher like particularly stupid animals do this at home too or do they think that because people are employed to be cleaners it's okay to make their work miserable by being a vile slob in shared spaces?
December 4, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Do the people who stack the office dishwasher like particularly stupid animals do this at home too or do they think that because people are employed to be cleaners it's okay to make their work miserable by being a vile slob in shared spaces?
Jokes about the other use aside, genuinely what is the problem with paper straws? I spend my summers at work drinking iced coffee from a place that gives you a jam jar and a paper straw and it's completely fine and I have no problems. What are the paper straw haters doing to their drinks??
December 4, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Jokes about the other use aside, genuinely what is the problem with paper straws? I spend my summers at work drinking iced coffee from a place that gives you a jam jar and a paper straw and it's completely fine and I have no problems. What are the paper straw haters doing to their drinks??
Is my boss dying or interviewing externally: the sudden proliferation of private appointments question.
December 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Is my boss dying or interviewing externally: the sudden proliferation of private appointments question.
Exciting personal news: I got a new lanyard card holder for my work access pass because the old one was wearing out.
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Exciting personal news: I got a new lanyard card holder for my work access pass because the old one was wearing out.
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Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market. “We’re cal...
theonion.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
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You’re absolutely right — you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure.
December 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
You’re absolutely right — you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure.
I'll always read anything about de Gaulle and I rarely regret it.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Todd · Codename Resurrection: De Gaulle makes a comeback
‘He had one illusion – France; and one disillusion – mankind, including Frenchmen.’ John Maynard Keynes’s...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I'll always read anything about de Gaulle and I rarely regret it.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Job applications update: applying for an internal role, so I have to actually tell my boss per company policy. He will look so disappointed and confused and it will be so uncomfortable.
December 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Job applications update: applying for an internal role, so I have to actually tell my boss per company policy. He will look so disappointed and confused and it will be so uncomfortable.
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Did a Wells Fargo employee write this?
fun fact: if you’re feeling nauseous, huffing hand sanitizer works *surprisingly* well
December 2, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Did a Wells Fargo employee write this?
"So what do you... Do?"
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 2, 2025 at 4:42 AM
"So what do you... Do?"
Well done to the office. Of the three toilet cubicles on my floor one is out of order for unspecified reasons with not a plumber in sight, one is out of paper and the usual spare paper is also gone, and the third one is thus very busy.
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Well done to the office. Of the three toilet cubicles on my floor one is out of order for unspecified reasons with not a plumber in sight, one is out of paper and the usual spare paper is also gone, and the third one is thus very busy.
For years I thought the "clubs" in "pubs and clubs" were nightclubs and I was surprised by the influence of the nightclub lobby.
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
For years I thought the "clubs" in "pubs and clubs" were nightclubs and I was surprised by the influence of the nightclub lobby.
I thought "strong floor, no ceiling" must be a Your Party thing (it that it's incoherent nonsense) and then when I found out it was the Democrats I assumed it was a reference to the debt ceiling so I am not really on board with this idea.
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I thought "strong floor, no ceiling" must be a Your Party thing (it that it's incoherent nonsense) and then when I found out it was the Democrats I assumed it was a reference to the debt ceiling so I am not really on board with this idea.
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Strong Floor. No Ceiling. 1 Bedroom. 1/2 Bathroom. Toilet Next To Stove. You Can’t Afford It.
Strong Floor, No Ceiling, Can Lose
December 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Strong Floor. No Ceiling. 1 Bedroom. 1/2 Bathroom. Toilet Next To Stove. You Can’t Afford It.
It's the first of December so now we're all obliged to say Merry Christmas to anyone we might not see for the next month thus making all service interactions slightly odd. 🎄
December 1, 2025 at 6:35 AM
It's the first of December so now we're all obliged to say Merry Christmas to anyone we might not see for the next month thus making all service interactions slightly odd. 🎄
Whenever the bus is late it is important to remember the true enemy is not the bus but instead everyone driving a car causing the traffic which made the bus late.
December 1, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Whenever the bus is late it is important to remember the true enemy is not the bus but instead everyone driving a car causing the traffic which made the bus late.
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c. 1930 vintage French advertising poster for L’Eau du Marabout, a mineral/table water produced in Constantine, Algeria, during the period when Algeria was part of French North Africa. The poster reads: ‘Ultraviolet rays sterilize Marabout Water — the best table and diet water.’
December 1, 2025 at 2:50 AM
c. 1930 vintage French advertising poster for L’Eau du Marabout, a mineral/table water produced in Constantine, Algeria, during the period when Algeria was part of French North Africa. The poster reads: ‘Ultraviolet rays sterilize Marabout Water — the best table and diet water.’
The consultants we were using from a software provider we are continuing to use all got made redundant so I'm sure everything will be fine and all our software problems will suddenly go away.
December 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The consultants we were using from a software provider we are continuing to use all got made redundant so I'm sure everything will be fine and all our software problems will suddenly go away.